Double-enders in the surf, 1930's (video)

[Breakaway]

Cool stuff.

[RFNK]

Good grief! Lots of bravery, Some know how and some not-know-how! Just one boat riding in on the back of the wave - not so spectacular I guess. Great footage - thanks for posting this! I hope no lives were actually lost! The name of the film suggests that maybe some were.

Rick

[Tom Galyen]

I was a Coast Guard Brat in the mid 1950's and my father was the Chief Boatswain's Mate at the Manasquan Inlet Lifeboat Station. My sister has a collection of newspaper articles of the boats that he towed in that very inlet. I spent most of the summers of 1954 and 1955 living on a cot in my fathers room at the station. Best summers of my life.

They had a "double ender at the station then too.

As Bob Hope would say "Thanks for the memories!"

[Hunky Dory]

Good Stuff thanks for posting.

[Paul Pless]

Cool stuff.

The dude in the double ender at 3:58 was righteous!

[johngsandusky]

Powerful video Kevin.

[Soundbounder]

I've been looking for this video for a long time. The CG Aux showed it during a boating safety course every winter when I was a kid.
I had incorrectly remembered the title as Bad Day At Manasquan


Thanks Kevin!

[Breakaway]

An interesting thing here is I think one of the fishing boats is one of the "Seagoing 32" models, built by the Post Yard, as shown with lines and plans in one of John Gardner's books.

kevin

[nedL]

That's Manasquan..... Actually one of the best inlets on the Jersey shore. And that day wasn't even all that bad (look offshore and things are nice and flat). Barnegat inlet is much worse. Manasquan is a straight run in, for Barnegat you come straight at the beach and then a short distance off you turn to starboard and run parallel to the beach for a ways (in surf like that), and then make a hard turn to port to come in the inlet. Years ago I read an account from about that time period of of a Jersey skiff sport fisherman that came in Barnegat inlet and was actually rolled over three times in the surf, they kept on going and made it in. One broken leg, and when the boat was checked afterwards the engines were even still aligned with the shafts. Those boats really should have been backing their way throught the inlet, much less chance of broaching that way.
Great footage! thanks!!

[dylan winter]

very good indeed

well done for posting that

well worth it

dylan

[Soundbounder]

That's Manasquan..... Actually one of the best inlets on the Jersey shore. And that day wasn't even all that bad (look offshore and things are nice and flat).

Look at the date....September, 1938